Re: [R] [Rd] Citation for R (was How to reference R in papers?)

2006-05-22 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
The following link will take you to a long running discussion on your topic: http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/06/02/21659.html Chuck Charles E. White, MS, Senior Biostatistician Walter Reed Army Institute of Research 503 Robert Grant Ave., Room 1w102 Silver Spring, MD 20910-1557 301

Re: [R] probit analysis

2006-05-06 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
The model becomes nonlinear when you add the natural response rate. In R, that means that you switch from using the glm function to using the nls function. As long as you're willing to use logistic regression instead of Probit analysis, nls has a 'self starting' option (SSLogis) for a three

[R] Compiling errors for Matrix_0.995-5.tar.gz under XP

2006-02-08 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
I installed the MinGW-5.0.0 compilers today (gcc-3.4.2 is now contained in the 'Current' distribution. When the current compilers failed to compile the referenced Matrix update and not knowing how to check the exact version numbers for individual files, I applied the Id.exe and f771.exe fixes

Re: [R] lme4_0.995-2/Matrix_0.995-4 upgrade introduces error messages (change management)

2006-01-30 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
: Douglas Bates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 6:33 PM To: White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC Subject: Re: lme4_0.995-2/Matrix_0.995-4 upgrade introduces error messages (change management) Sorry to hear of the difficulties, Charles. One thing to try is to turn on the verbose

[R] lme4_0.995-2/Matrix_0.995-4 upgrade introduces error messages (change management)

2006-01-27 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
I'll address two issues. The first is today's error message and the other is change management for contributed packages on CRAN. TODAY'S ERROR MESSAGE I switched from the 0.995-1 versions of lme4 and Matrix to those referenced in the subject line this afternoon. Prior to using these packages

[R] Documentation in R 2.2.1 for Windows of: rcmd build --docs=

2006-01-18 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
I recommend that the allowable values for docs be included in the short help output generated by the command 'rcmd build --help'. The html help file for build does not contain this information (which is fine since the HTML help system supports multiple operating systems). I did find the options I

Re: [R] CRAN versions of lme4/Matrix don't appear to work with R 2.1.1

2006-01-13 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
After downloading from the WA mirror, the lme4 related packages appear to run fine . Thanks for everyone's help. Chuck __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide!

[R] CRAN versions of lme4/Matrix don't appear to work with R 2.1.1

2006-01-12 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
I am currently using R 2.1.1 under Windows and I do not seem to be able to load the current versions of lme4/Matrix. I have run 'update.packages.' I understand this is still experimental software but I would like access to a working version. Thanks. Chuck R Output: library(lme4) Loading

Re: [R] CRAN versions of lme4/Matrix don't appear to work with R 2.1.1

2006-01-12 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
I blew away my existing R directory structure, reinstalled R 2.2.1 from scratch, downloaded lme4 and associated packages from scratch, tried to load lme4 and got the same error message. Again, I am using the Windows version of R on XP. Chuck R : Copyright 2005, The R Foundation for Statistical

Re: [R] CRAN versions of lme4/Matrix don't appear to work with R 2.1.1

2006-01-12 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
. Chuck -Original Message- From: Spencer Graves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 4:08 PM To: White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch; Douglas Bates Subject: Re: [R] CRAN versions of lme4/Matrix don't appear to work with R 2.1.1 Did

Re: [R] CRAN versions of lme4/Matrix don't appear to work with R 2.1.1

2006-01-12 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
1) It was the Statlib mirror from which I was downloading. If I don't get any more interesting messages before I return to work in the morning, I'll try installing off of a different mirror. 2) On general principles, I just updated the lme4 related packages on the SuSE 10 machine that I run at

Re: [R] Problems installing R 2.1.1. from rpm

2005-12-21 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
May be there is a difference between SuSE and OpenSuSE nowadays?! I exclusively use OpenSuSE now and was under the impression those were equivalent. The main difference between SuSE and OpenSuSE is that SuSE contains some non-GPL software not directly available for OpenSuSE. The most obvious

Re: [R] Problems installing R 2.1.1. from rpm

2005-12-20 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
The rpm for R installed fine on my version of SuSE 10. This is probably overkill but from the 'selections' page in yast I enabled the c/c++ compiler and tools then I individually enabled blas and a couple of other things... I don't remember. __

[R] Reading Health Level Seven (HL 7) data format into R

2005-09-29 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
Has anyone developed code for reading HL 7 formatted data into R? HL 7 is an open standard for the digital transfer of health care information. It's moving towards XML but it isn't there yet. A study I started working on today will be receiving lab data in that format. I'd rather not reinvent any

[R] Reading numeric data in Excel as character data in R using RODBC

2005-08-31 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
The Excel 'database' I am pulling from mixes multiple character indicators for different kinds of non-numeric results in the same column as the numeric values. A simple sqlFetch turns all of the character indicators into NAs. I would like to pull in all of the Excel data as character so that I can

[R] Archive Search on R Help Mailing List Help

2005-08-06 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
The link to the search engine at the University of Newcastle, Australia doesn't seem to be working. Is there someone who can either update the link or indicate when the service may be back? Thanks. Chuck __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list

[R] gnomeGUI on FC4

2005-08-06 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
It seems nice that R is part of the 'walled garden' of applications specifically configured to run under Fedora Core 4 (Linux). The gnomeGUI has a separate installation routine under FC4 and yum tells me it's installed. I've even found an executable for it in /usr/lib/R/bin/exec. However, as

RE: [R] R GUI for Linux?

2005-05-31 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
DC Cc: John Fox; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] R GUI for Linux? White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC wrote: John: Thank you for your interest. After more investigation I see that my problem is with linking tcltk to R. tcl 8.4.7-2 and tk 8.4.7-2 are tuned to fc3

RESOLVED: [R] R GUI for Linux?

2005-05-31 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
] Sent: Tue 5/31/2005 8:57 AM To: White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] R GUI for Linux? White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC wrote: Thanks for the tip. I thought that 'Base' files were installed already but I know better now. Unfortunately, I'm still not up

[R] R GUI for Linux?

2005-05-30 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
I feel your pain. grin I am a new Linux user who has spent most of the weekend trying to get a functional R setup. When I installed Fedora Core 3 (FC3) on my home computer, I thought using R in a terminal would be a snap. I installed R using the rpm packages and tried to use it with the FC3

RE: [R] R GUI for Linux?

2005-05-30 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
for your time. Chuck -Original Message- From: John Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 5/30/2005 4:20 PM To: White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: RE: [R] R GUI for Linux? Dear Charles, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

[R] R-devel 2.1.0 dependencies for RPMS under Fedora Core 3

2005-05-25 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
The R-devel RPMS has a number of dependencies on Fedora Core development tools. When the RPMS is installed, the dependencies are resolved by automatically downloading and installing the latest version of the development tools. Looking at the README file in the fc3 directory, I was surprised by

[R] JGR Tablet PC

2004-11-18 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
(1) A minor point; the JGR console recognizes when the input panel (think tool bar) is docked at the top of the screen and acts appropriately. However, the editor opens under the input panel. I can close the input panel, move the editor, and open the input panel to continue work. On the other

RE: [R] R 2.0.0 Installation Problem

2004-11-17 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
Long time no see I'm not sure I can help but I will make a couple of suggestions: (1) Start R clean, install the new package, exit R normally, restart R and then try to find the package. I am adding a couple of extra, undocumented, and generally unnecessary steps in case the programs

RE: [R] List dimention labels to plots of components

2004-08-20 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
My goal is more efficient code for something I anticipate doing a lot. My example code from my first message works because I insert a seemingly redundant recording of Dose Treatment in the list generated in the by command. Since Dose Treatment are already recorded in the dimensions of the list,

[R] Is R good for not-professional-statistician, un-mathematical clinical researchers?

2004-08-19 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
I'm not in your target audience but I consult with and teach to your target audience, so I'll chime in anyway. 1. Look at the user friendliness of the alternatives you offered to R. I haven't used SPSS recently or Stata at all but I know SAS is NOT that user friendly. Note that my institute

[R] List dimention labels to plots of components

2004-08-19 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
It is frustrating to see the labels I want in the dimensions of a list but not be able to extract those labels into titles for plots generated from component objects. If someone could set me straight, I would appreciate it. For your amusement, I have provided an example of the Byzantine code I

[R] WinXP developer asks: Tcl/Tk (Rcmdr) under OS X?

2004-07-11 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
It is my understanding that Tcl/Tk does not come with the base installation of R under OS X ( http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/projects/TclTk.html). Is there a simple way to explain how a user with limited tolerance for computer complexity can obtain and install Tcl/Tk for OS X? Thanks. Chuck

[R] Menu addditions to Rcmdr v0.9-6

2004-04-19 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
1) In general, I would appreciate help in adding functions to the Rcmdr menu system. I've been able to modify the menus themselves and source test code but I can't get R functions to execute from the menu. My latest proof of concept code follows: Three lines added to Rcmdr-menus.txt:

[R] Extracting Vectors from Lists of Lists Produced by Functions

2003-05-31 Thread White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC
If you found my subject heading to be confusing then I'm sure you'll enjoy the example I've included below. I find the apply type functions to be wonderful for avoiding loops but when I use them with existing functions, I end up using loops anyway to extract the vectors I want. I would appreciate